“Next, the cook put in front of each of them a thick slice of rye bread a foot square. The latter part of the novel, about the plague and its aftermath, shows how this traumatic event subverted traditional attitudes about sex, religion and social hierarchies.įollett makes his work friendly to readers who may have read little or no historical fiction, explaining a host of medieval customs without slowing the pace. At heart, though, it is a story of local conflicts: between merchants struggling to make a living and religious officials struggling to maintain power, and between the nobility and the serfs and free peasants who work the land.
With characters traveling to war-torn France in one episode, its scope is even more panoramic. Set in the same fictional town, but two hundred years later in the fourteenth century, World Without End can easily be read as a stand-alone novel.
World Without End is a sequel to Follett’s bestselling Pillars of the Earth.
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